Story | 25 Oct, 2019
IUCN launched a book on governance for ecosystem-based Adaptation
Based on experience gained in Mesoamerica, this book reflects on the multiple aspects of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) governance and seeks to offer recommendations to stimulate the necessary changes in policies, laws and institutions that…
Story | 25 Oct, 2019
A landscape for everyone: interview with an author
Landscapes are complex and sometimes difficult to envision. They might include small farmers, miners, large businesses, community forests, indigenous lands, and a host of other land users with different rights and expectations. Ensuring that diverse people’s rights are included in decision-…
Grey literature | 2019
Advancing gender in the environment
This guide provides an overview of the unique roles and contributions women make in the wild-caught fisheries sector.
Story | 24 Oct, 2019
Dr Robert Wallace, innovator in biodiversity and conservation, wins the 2019 Kenton Miller Award
The Kenton Miller Award 2019 is given to a person of outstanding contributions to the understanding and promotion of Latin America’s biodiversity and conservation.
Story | 24 Oct, 2019
Papal message to the participants of the Budapest Water Summit 2019
The 3rd Budapest Water Summit took place in Hungary from 15 to 17 October 2019. The overall theme of the event was “Preventing Water Crisis”. The Summit was attended by representatives of the academic world, international and regional organizations, governments, business and civil society.
Story | 23 Oct, 2019
Recognition and reward for five outstanding conservationists, at Lima CAPLAC III congress
In this article we highlight these five champions of protected areas, presented by IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas at a ceremony in Peru during the third Latin American and Caribbean Protected Areas Congress.
Story | 23 Oct, 2019
“The forest fires currently raging in the Amazon are sparked by climate change,”
stated the renowned Amazonian climate scientist Dr. Luis Campos Baca, of the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, in his opening address to The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Andes-Amazon…
Story | 23 Oct, 2019
The world of protected areas in one book, now in Spanish
The entirety of protected area management and governance has been available in one book since the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, in Sydney. The Spanish version of this publication, 'Protected Area Governance and Management’, was launched in Lima, on 15 October 2019, at the third Latin American…
Story | 22 Oct, 2019
New IUCN and REV Ocean strategic partnership to fill key ocean knowledge gaps
Oslo, 22 October 2019 – REV Ocean and IUCN sign an agreement to focus on cooperation in developing marine expeditions, joint research projects, investigating ocean/climate change impacts and coordinating policy and communication material. Oslo, 22 October 2019 – REV…
Story | 22 Oct, 2019
محمية الجهراء بصمه كويتيه على قائمة الاتحاد الدولي لصون الطبيعه نحو مستقبل اخضر
محمية الجهراء بصمه كويتيه على قائمة الاتحاد الدولي لصون الطبيعه نحو مستقبل اخضر